So I ask you, just how much progressive-type
insanity can people be made to tolerate before they finally say enough is
enough and choose to pull up stakes and go in search for that place where
Democrats, and the insane policies those living under Democrat rule they are
made to live with, have not yet been able to ruin? But make no mistake, those remaining places
undamaged by Democrats, are becoming fewer and fewer in number. But it would seem that some of those places
long viewed as being the bastions of left-wing lunacy seem to have suffered recent
exodus, of sorts.
For example, New York State, and much of the
Northeast as a whole, led the nation in domestic net “outmigration” during the
period from July 1, 2013 to July 1, 2014, at least according to newly released
data from the Census Bureau. And it was
during that very same period that Texas, and the South, led the nation in
domestic net “in-migration.” And I think
we all know why that might be. And as
someone who lives here in the South, I’m more than a little concerned that many
of those moving here from such places as New York, might be bringing their
nutty ideas with them.
Domestic net outmigration is the number of residents
who move out of a state or region to another part of the country minus the
number of residents who move in from another part of the country. It does not include international migration,
or people who move into a state or region from outside the United States, or
from a state or region to outside the United States. A state or region has domestic net in-migration
when the number of people moving in from another part of the country exceeds
the number moving out.
From July 1, 2013 to July 1, 2014, 30 states had a
domestic net outmigration and 20 states plus the District of Columbia had a
domestic net in-migration. It was New
York State that led in outmigration as a net of 153,921 people moved from the
state to elsewhere in the country. Meanwhile,
Texas led in in-migration as a net of 154,467 moved into the state from elsewhere
in the country. Illinois had the second
highest domestic outmigration, with a net of 94,956 leaving the state and
Florida had the second highest domestic in-migration with 138,546 moving into
that state.
The Northeast region which includes Connecticut,
Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Jersey, New
York and Pennsylvania, saw a net domestic outmigration of 286,696 from July 1,
2013 to 2104. The Midwest Region, which
includes Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, also had a net domestic
outmigration. From July 1, 2013 to July
1, 2014 it saw a net movement of 182,057 people leave for other parts of the
country.
Meanwhile, the West, which includes Arizona,
Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Montana, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Alaska,
California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, had a net domestic in-migration of
103,464. That number might have been
considerable higher were it not for the fact that California actually had the
fourth highest net domestic outmigration (32,090) of all 50 states. And joining California we have New Mexico
(14,154), Alaska (10,137), Hawaii (5,141) and Utah (1,235) as western states that
ended up with a net domestic outmigration.
The South, which oddly enough, is said to also include
such locales as the state of Delaware and Washington D.C., also includes
Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West
Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Oklahoma, and Texas. And together these
states had a net domestic in-migration of 365,289. But had it not been for the only two states in
this entire region that had a net domestic outmigration, Arkansas (3,890) and
West Virginia (2,749), that number would have been higher.
As the Census Bureau data shows, climate does not
necessarily predict movements in the domestic population. Not all Sunbelt
states had a net inflow of domestic migrants, and not all cold northeastern and
Midwestern states had a net outflow. California and Hawaii had significant
outflows of domestic migrants. North Dakota and Idaho had significant inflows. It
is also true that a state might not necessarily have negative total net
migration just because it has a negative net domestic migration. International
in-migration can compensate for people lost to domestic outmigration.
Here the Top Ten States for Net Domestic In-migration:
1-Texas (154,467)
2-Florida (138,546)
3-Arizona (41,975)
4-Colorado (40,318)
5-South Carolina (38,614)
6-North Carolina (36,257)
7-Washington (28,063)
8-Tennessee (24,511)
9-Nevada (23,623)
10-Oregon (22,670)
Here to the Top Ten States for net Domestic Out-migration:
1-New York (-153,921)
2-Illinois (-94,956)
3-New Jersey (-55,469)
4-California (-32,090)
5-Pennsylvania (-31,448)
6-Michigan (-28,679)
7-Connecticut (-26,216)
8-Virginia (-20,400)
9-Ohio (-18,243)
10-Massachusetts (-16,354)
While it cannot be said that all the states which
experienced a net outmigration were ‘Blue’ states and those experiencing a net
in-migration were all ‘Red’ states, I don’t think we can totally discount the effects
that the liberal/progressive agenda might have had on the respective outcomes. Because when it comes to such things escalating
taxes of nearly every sort, from property taxes to gasoline taxes and the
increasing cost of simply putting tags on your car, people will look for
cheaper places to live. Especially when
they are trying to raise a family and to provide for them.
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